Helen Mackreath

<p>Helen Mackreath is a Political Science Masters student at the American University of Beirut. She also works as a researcher on Syrian refugees, based in Beirut, and blogs from <a href="http://www.h

What does the increasing power of Hezbollah mean to the Lebanese state?

Their actions in Al-Qusayr hurl them far closer to the category of regional militant force, as the architects of a new framework of Middle Eastern skirmishes, in which Sunnis and Shiites become the crucial axis of antagonism, rather than nation states.

By Helen Mackreath

/ 4 Jun 2013